Twitter now forces you to PAY to access one of its most popular features – as users call the change ‘another Elon Musk decision that literally no one asked for’
- X (formerly Twitter) has started charging users to access TweetDeck (now X Pro)
- The tool lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts and is very popular
It’s been one of the most popular tools on X (formerly Twitter) since it launched back in 2008.
But there’s bad news if you regularly use TweetDeck – you’ll now have to pay to access the tool, which has been renamed X Pro.
X has started diverting users to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they try to access TweetDeck.
The tool lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts and see multiple timelines, and is particularly popular among social media managers and journalists.
Several frustrated users have taken to X to discuss the change, with one calling it ‘another Elon Musk decision that literally no one asked for.’
There’s bad news if you regularly use TweetDeck – you’ll now have to pay to access the tool, which has been renamed X Pro
Several frustrated users have taken to X to discuss the change, with one calling it ‘another Elon Musk decision that literally no one asked for’
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Twitter bought London-based TweetDeck in 2011, with technology media putting the price tag at $40 million (£31.3 million) at the time.
Over the last 12 years it has been free for users, and has proved hugely popular, with an estimated 20 per cent of X users using the service.
Last month, X announced that TweetDeck would only be available to ‘verified’ account holders from August.
Now, users attempting to access the service are required to pay for X’s blue checkmark verification.
This has an eye-watering annual fee of $84 in the US, and £100.80 in the UK.
Several users have taken to X to vent their frustrations at the change.
‘Tweetdeck is now paid-only, another Elon Musk decision that literally no one asked for,’ one user tweeted.
Several users have taken to X to vent their frustrations at the change, including one who wrote: ”Ah well done Elon. Tweetdeck now subscriber only. Try to make this thing as user unfriendly as possible. The fewer people on here the better, right?’
Another added: ‘Ah well done Elon. Tweetdeck now subscriber only. Try to make this thing as user unfriendly as possible. The fewer people on here the better, right?’
And one joked: ‘Going back to the Twitter web site after using Tweetdeck feels like watching old 4:3 content on a widescreen TV.’
The social media firm, bought by billionaire Elon Musk last year, has been thrashing around for ways to make a profit, cutting staff and ramping up its paid-for subscriptions.
Last week, CEO Linda Yaccarino said that the company was ‘close’ to breaking even and would beef up staffing that had been slashed by Musk.
X’s verified users are mostly those who have paid to receive the blue checkmark, though Musk has gifted the verification symbol to some.
Talks of ‘cage fight’ escalate between Mark Zuckerberg and rival Elon Musk
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk may be about to engage in a ‘cage fight’ to settle the long-running feud that has mostly played out online.
It all started near the end of June when Musk was commenting about Meta’s plans to release Threads, a rival social media app.
Musk said of Threads: ‘I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb with no other options.’
Musk was then told that the Meta CEO practices jiu jitsu, to which he replied: ‘I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.’
The Twitter boss later tweeted: ‘If this is for real, I will do it.’
Zuckerberg replied by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet to his Instagram story with the caption: ‘Send me location.’
Mark Zuckerberg seemed to agree to the cage fight, simply posting the words ‘send me location’ on his Instagram story
The Colosseum in Rome has been offered as a potential venue for the fight by the Italian Minister of Culture, according to reports.
Zuckerberg’s company seemed to take a dig at Twitter by saying Threads will be ‘sanely-run’.
Musk has urged Twitter users to delete their Facebook accounts, calling the social network ‘lame’ in the past.
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